Posts by asdf

Re: But at what cost?

T-mobile rocks if you live on the coasts but the coverage is pretty shitty in between for most part.

Re: Stop me if I'm wrong

> How can IBM management not spot the obvious?

Are you an investor? If so let me just say stock buy back, stock buy back, stock buy back. Now lets talk about how rosy things look going forward for big blue.

Re: Well,.. That explains systemd...

Not just Poettering but Red Hat (his employer) in general. Look at what they did to Gnome too. At least you have to say about Microsoft they wrote the majority of their ecosystem from the ground up, the fools.

Re: Nice to see.

Hardly some fanboi (clue is I'm not AC and post history is pretty harsh to Microsoft over all). Just going off what I remember when I was big into running BOINC on my rigs some time back. I think if you check the stats you will see Windows on like hardware racking up more BOINC points but again maybe things have changed in the last 7 years or so. Of course in general Linux especially owns scientific computing due to the scalability, open source flexibility and not having to buy 2048 windows licenses or whatever. (among many other reasons) *nix also obviously gives you a lot of advantages such as security and stability that relatively newcomers to the Windows world.

Re: The vast majority of Android users are screwed

Proving once again apart from perhaps Nexus devices, Android only makes sense bought cheap after the warranty is gone and loaded with custom roms that do get the fixes.

Re: The really incredible thing is...

>In an organisation that knows what it's doing

As the original poster said luck that it hit just such a rare organization or more likely it has hit many others and this is just one of the first to pay attention.

Re: Regardless

And for the record yes skilled snowboarders don't take the top off moguls but the only time you see only skilled snowboarders on the slopes is on TV. Pretty consistently you do see the reason the ski patrol is on the bunny slope is due to some dumbass deciding to try snowboarding without head gear.

Re: Not familiar with US politics process

>Does this warfare on foreign ground kind of thing generally require the approval of the people's democratically elected representatives?

Yes but sadly really only one, the POTUS. Congress doesn't actually like doing anything so this was another power they gave away (unofficially at least) to the POTUS during the Vietnam era. Starting wars (sorry make that conflicts, wars still technically require Congressional approval, and worrying about getting Congress on board after) is one of the few things the POTUS actually has control over which is why its rather amusing to see people picking presidents based on their supposed economic plans which are all bullshit anyway and Congress now doesn't even pretend to care what the POTUS suggests.

waiting for other shoe to drop

Cue DMCA cease and desist from the embarrassed company in 3 .. 2 .. 1. Especially if this guy ends up giving a talk.

Actually the next thing to really fug over the US will probably be Mount Rainier. The Yellowstone caldera has been a bit too quiet the last half million years as well.

Re: IBM is just being IBM, no surprise

The only difference is the stock buy back target is no longer explicit.

Re: BS

@AC: exactly usually don't upvote ACs but here ya go.

Re: Blue wash ahead

Well not sure in this case but starts with prices disappearing off the web site and the whole if you have to ask up front you can't afford it which is the norm with big blue.

Re: The PC hasn't had good profits for a decade

Yep curious why the article picture is not of a dumpster fire. The loveliest of all fires.

Re: "researchers scanned the entire IPv4"

>Hold on, let me get this straight - so you insist keeping your anonymity on a website that you subsequently entrust with your credit card details ...

Well does keep your ISP and everyone but the website at least from knowing you buy sex toys on the first Thursday of the month or whatever.

joke aside

>Best to block it and get the stuff you need off those 3.5" cover disks on the front of magazines.

Or you know you can browse using a Tails OS iso as read only storage in a VM. That way not only does nothing persist between VM reboots (including said malware or other junk advertisers track you with, also exploiting out of VMs is relatively rare (compared to say flash flaws or whatever) and 0 days largely beyond the skiddies) but you also get the advantage of turn key tor browsing so your ISP and their advertising buddies can go fug off as well. With unity mode its relatively seamless with your regular desktop. The drawbacks of course are having to use FF derivatives (I don't mind) and having to download a new 1 gig iso every few weeks (again not a biggie for me).

Re: Why bother about openssl anymore ?

>It needs to die, really, and be forgotten.

Many of came to that conclusion. The big groan when heartbleed came out was everyone realizing what a POS OpenSSL was and now much it is wedged into the infrastructure of the web.

Re: It's not about jobs, it's about income...

>now is higher than almost all workers 100 years ago.

But the question is will that be true in 50 years. Already education is bottoming out due to tremendous cost which will affect the other things you list as well.

Re: Neat

Being a bit older i prefer.

Not necessarily. There's definitely a *very slim* chance we'll survive.

I love this plan! I'm excited to be a part of it! LET'S DO IT!

Re: except

with parts probably from 25 other countries. But keep believing not buying American or only buying from UK companies makes a difference in this era of multinationals picking where they pay taxes and suing governments for harming their shareholders.

Android != gapps but sadly valid warranty usually = gapps.

Re: Possibile Pheonix

What's it say if Myspace came out after you were long out of school and never bothered. You are old I guess.

Re: ARMed

I agree but probably more likely to be MIPS in the router space if past form holds.

sunk costs

Well considering they pay much of their counsel whether they are in court or not it's probably not as much more than one would think.

Re: Clearly The Law is a ass...

Keep thinking there is such a thing as a US company with over 100 employees. Said original company above probably does at least a billion dollar of business in the UK/EU and more than likely it was their subsidiary in the UK involved in the legal action. Also keep believing your legal system can't be bought. The US system is just more transparently corrupt to corporate interests.

Re: The 'Java sucks' brigade...

Yep Java the concept was decent but SUN's absolute garbage implementation continued up to today really limited it's use on the desktop. Microsoft did a good job of showing how to do a managed language environment but then came to the conclusion that the concept was not fit for purpose for developing its own products (a few token examples aside which tended to be flaky and slow).